@DaemahnFriday You still deserve kindness. I bet that the ‘bad things’ about you are things that you struggle with and being nicer to yourself makes that easier. I’m speaking from experience.
William Schabas, the renowned Jewish genocide scholar who was among the first westerners to warn, in 1993, of a genocide in Rwanda, is clear: Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and preparing to do the same in the West Bank.
He says a major reason not more experts are speaking up is because there's a 'price in terms of career promotions, appointments, or even the threat of dismissal in some cases. So, for younger people in academia there’s a strong tendency to keep your head down.'
An additional problem is that genocide studies in universities is dominated by Holocaust scholars. 'This has helped fuel reluctance in the field in calling Gaza a genocide, as many of these people’s focus is the suffering of the Jewish people – making them potentially less inclined to be as critical of Israel as they should be.'
He believes the International Court of Justice, where Israel is on trial for genocide, will not find its defence case plausible.
The so-called rule of proportionality – the ratio of combatant to civilian casualties – applies 'when you’re actually attacking military objectives. But the Israelis are not attacking military objectives in Gaza. They’re attacking hospitals, they’re attacking schools, they’re attacking civilian residences and communities.
'There, the issue of proportionality is not relevant. They shouldn’t be attacking those sites and then coming up with the pathetic excuse that Hamas fighters hide under every building, something for which we simply don’t see the evidence.'
More here: https://t.co/Oqu6NrcBrl
"We've always lived here. Our whole lives are here. Where else can we go?" Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank say Israeli settlers are increasingly threatening their families and forcing them off their land-- expanding illegal herding outposts. Watch @nadaabashir's report.
Over 3 million Syrians, mostly women and children, are still living in tents.
No food. No clean water. No homes to return to. 80% of the country is unlivable, reduced to rubble, poverty, and trauma.
The world moved on. We haven’t.
Assad stole Syria’s wealth, drained the gold reserves, looted public money, and destroyed the economy to hold onto power.
He survived 14 years of U.S. sanctions by selling captagon, running criminal networks, and relying on Russia and Iran.
Now, there’s a new Syrian government that banned Captagon, cut ties with Russia and Iran, and wants to rebuild.
But there’s no international help because U.S. sanctions block all support.
We have no funding, resources, or way to rebuild a broken country.
I live in the U.S., and I still can’t send money to my family in Syria because of sanctions.
Sanctions were meant to target dictators, not starve innocent people or block recovery.
This is what Syrians are still going through.
Don’t look away.
#Syria #JusticeForSyria #LiftSanctions #HumanRights #Refugees
@RepJoeWilson
@ranrampant@shinscreams Right? All I said was their belief in the man accused of abuse but not the female victim initially is misogyny. Still is even if that particular woman is lying.
Most children didn’t have representation before this. Now none will. That means children who don’t speak English will be representing themselves in immigration court
Let me repeat again. For breakfast or for lunch, you will eat the oppression you allow for your neighbor. Anything you support this administration doing to “illegals,” they will soon do to you when they make YOU illegal.
@TheAngryest I was 45 minutes away from this and didn’t find out about it until it was happening. I wish I could have been there to laugh my ass off at him to his face 🤣
@ranrampant@shinsgrve She’s lying but she hasn’t been proven guilty is what he’s saying but we can’t say that he beat her until he’s been proven guilty. Misogyny 🎶